Miguel I. Gómez concentrates his research program on two interrelated areas under the umbrella of food marketing and distribution. The first is Food Value Chains Competitiveness and Sustainability. His work in this area involves multi-disciplinary collaborations for the development models to assess supply chain performance in multiple dimensions—economic, social and environmental. The second is Food Markets.

Maria Cristina Garcia, a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, studies refugees, immigrants, and exiles. While Garcia considers herself primarily a historian of 20th-century U.S. history, her interest in displaced and mobile populations has increasingly blurred the geographic borders of her work.

Her most recent book, State of Disaster: The Failure of U.S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change (University of North Carolina Press, 2022), was awarded an honorable mention in the Immigration and Ethnic History Society's Theodore Saloutos Book Prize.

The research in Alexander S. Flecker’s lab is at the interface between community and ecosystem ecology and aims to understand the functional significance of biodiversity. Much of the research focuses on stream ecosystems in both the tropics and temperate zone, addressing questions pertaining to the importance of species diversity and identity for ecosystem functioning. Flecker’s research team has found that species that engineer their physical and chemical environments can be particularly important drivers of ecosystem structure and function.

María Fernández’s research and teaching concern three areas and their intersections: the history and theory of digital and new media art, postcolonial and gender studies and Latin American art and architecture.

Fernández has taught courses in the history and theory of digital art, Latin American art of various periods as well as feminist art in new media. Recent seminar topics include: Feminist Postumanisms, Latin American Modernisms and Technology, BioArt (with Angela Douglas, Depts. Entomology, Molecular Biology & Genetics) and Video Game Criticism.

Timothy Devoogd studies how the brains of birds encode learned behaviors like song or memory for food locations. Particular questions now being studied include the neural basis for female song discrimination, and the interplay between the hippocampus and other brain areas in spatial memory. He studies these questions in a variety of species in order to infer how these abilities evolved.

Raymond Craib's research and teaching interests revolve around the intersections of space, politics, and everyday practice. He is especially interested in Latin America and/as global history, critical geography/cartography, the left, and theory and history. As a 2020–21 Global Public Voices fellow, he collaborated with José Ragas (Universidad Catolica, Chile).

Ananda Cohen-Aponte works on the visual culture of colonial Latin America, with special interests in issues of cross-cultural exchange, historicity, identity, and anti-colonial movements. Her research and teaching explore legacies of colonialism in contemporary Latinx art as well as Latin American and Caribbean archaeology, visual and material culture in the Andes, and landscape, environment and archaeology of colonialism in Pre-Columbian and colonial Latin American art.

Lourdes Casanova’s work focuses on environmental policy, government, politics, and policy studies as well as emerging multinationals from Brazil and Latin America.

Ernesto Bassi Arevalo is an associate professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on the role circulation (of goods, people, news, and ideas) plays in the configuration of geographic spaces and political allegiances.